Diane J. Burgess
Professor of Pharmaceutics
University of Connecticut, Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences
USA
Biography
Burgess received her B.Sc. degree in Pharmacy from the University of Strathclyde, U.K. (1979) and her Ph.D. in Pharmaceutics from the University of London, U.K. (1984). She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Universities of Nottingham, U.K. (1984-1985) and North Carolina (1985). Dr. Burgess joined the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago in 1986 as Assistant and then Associate Professor and moved to the University of Connecticut in 1993. She was promoted to Professor in 1999, and in 2009 she was appointed Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Pharmaceutics at the University of Connecticut.
Research Interest
Nano Medicine, Injectable Dispersed Systems, Formulation, Processing and Performance, Drug Delivery.